AUUI was Apple's way of (unintentionally) screwing Mac users, by making them use a proprietary connector instead of one of the industry standards. The few Macs that had only AUUI sockets were given bad reviews and left on shelves by the comerical world. Apple quickly added the RJ45 connector...
It's AAUI. Like other things (Serial and SCSI) the reason Apple went to something nonstandard was to conserve back panel space. AAUI is about half the length of AUI. It was in almost all of the Quadra line, some 030's I think and the first PowerMacs so it wasn't in just a few Macs. At the time few if any PCs had built in NICs at all and when Apple first put AAUI in I don't think that 10BaseT was standardized yet so I think they did the right thing.
I'm old fashioned (and already have a goodly investment in Cat5 cable all through my network) so haven't bothered with wireless.
Not old fashioned, IMO. SMART.
WEP & war driving problems notwithstanding...
802.11b is a one room / one wall technology. A waste of $.
I'm all wired with CAT5 and only use wireless with the laptops. But it is well worth it there.
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